pregnant

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  1. adjective Carrying developing offspring within the body.
  2. adjective Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
  3. adjective Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland” (New York).
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  • An Australian pair of partners, Sandy Tate and Jeff Lee, oceanography and life science respectively, are pregnant -- or rather, Sandy herself is. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • Men had cursed the importance she had put on not getting pregnant, and only her status as a princess kept several of them from using violence to overcome her scruples. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
  • So he got her pregnant, the stupid man, and had to give her money for an abortion. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 03] - Butchers Hill
  • And here, now, supposed progressives savage not only Sarah Palin, saying that she wasn't pregnant which is so ridiculously insane because it is so easily disproved, but that her daughter, was pregnant and hiding it. —  Right Wing News
  • This mom actually had no clue she was pregnant, that is until she rushed into ER from what she thought was a bad case of the stones. —  Babylune
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In def. 8, Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, pregnant, pithy, ready, capable, etc.; French prégnant = Italian pregnante, pregnant, from Latin prægnan(t-)s, with child, pregnant, full, in form present participle of a verb *prægnare, from præ, before, + gnare, bear, past participle gnatus, natus, born: see natal. In some Shaksperian uses pregnant has been referred to Old French prenant, present participle of prendre, take (cf. pregnable, from Old French prenable); but all uses seem to be derivable from pregnant as above.
 

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